Beacon Blue

With an LRV of about 10, Beacon Blue absorbs most of the light that reaches it. It makes a wall recede and a room feel smaller, and it needs good light to show its color. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Beacon Blue in other brands

• Blue Regent Dulux Australia S37H8 Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Twilight Zone Asian Paints 7325 Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Suddenly Sapphire PPG 1242-7 Blue Very close ΔE 1.5
• Suddenly Sapphire Glidden PPG1242-7 Blue Very close ΔE 1.5
• Windsor C2 Paint C2-762 Blue Very close ΔE 1.6
• Cascade Twilight Kelly-Moore KM3136-5 Blue Very close ΔE 1.8

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Wide Sky Behr T18-17 Blue
• Sailboat Behr S-H-590 Blue

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as blue
• Protanopia Reads as blue
• Tritanopia Reads as teal
• Achromatopsia Reads as gray

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Close to listed
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Beacon Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -37.9 and a value of 3.7 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dulux Australia color to Beacon Blue?

Blue Regent (S37H8), at ΔE 1.0. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Beacon Blue?

≈ 10. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.